Fuminori Nakamura

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers....

What transforms a person into a killer? Could it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that...

The magnum opus by Akutagawa Prize-winner Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki's girlfriend, Ryoko, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of a private detective he's...

Two detectives narrate the aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher and provide an intimate look into the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir. Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body—rapidly becoming two, then...

Fuminori Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winner plunges us into the depths of a young man's winding, troubled psyche. An unnamed taxi driver in Tokyo has experienced a rupture in his everyday life. He cannot stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become...

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity. A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The...

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the...

The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation....

The award-winning debut novel by Japanese noir master Fuminori Nakamura, translated into English for the first time. From the moment university student Nishikawa spots the gun next to the dead man he's stumbled across on a nighttime walk, the world around him blurs. The gun - loaded with four...

著者２年ぶりにして新たなる代表作、誕生！＜つまり言いかえれば、これはテロの書だ。誰も読んでは――＞3ヶ月前、「男」は仕事辞め、女性と別れ、世界中から失われた蛇信仰のあるこの地へ来た――

連続通り魔殺人事件の容疑者"コートの男"を追う所轄の刑事・中島と捜査一課の女刑事・小橋。しかし、それはさらなる悲劇の序章に過ぎなかった。世界の片隅で求め合う男と女。極限の愛が狂気に変わる時、「人間」を超えた殺人者の終わりなき〈復讐〉が始まる――。神にも愛にも見捨てられた人間を、人は救うことができるのか。

In einer Regennacht findet ein junger Mann in den Straßen von Tokio eine Leiche - und neben ihr einen Revolver. Nishikawa nimmt die Waffe...

Kenji Yamamine kommt in den Besitz der legendären Teufelstrompete des Komponisten Suzuki. Ihr wird die Macht zugeschrieben, Menschen zu begeistern...